On Sunday night, all MLB teams played their 162nd game of the regular season, marking an end to an eventful 2025 campaign for 18 teams in the entire league. For 12 teams, their journey in October is only about to begin, and one of the teams that qualified for the postseason, the Boston Red Sox , will be facing their sworn rival New York Yankees in the AL Wild Card series, with Game 1 of that matchup being on Tuesday, September 31.

The current MLB playoff format might be unfair in that a division winner is guaranteed a top-three seed in the playoffs, which means that the best Wild Card team, even if they have a better record than the worst division winner, can only top out at fourth. This seeding quirk set up the series between the Red Sox and Yankees.

But thankfully for the former,

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